Senior Backend Engineer

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.

Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.

About the Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer in Wrike’s Solutions Unit, you will design, build, and evolve backend services that power key enterprise workflows, with a strong focus on resource management, workload planning, capacity management, utilization analytics, and asset scheduling. This role is critical to delivering differentiated capabilities for Wrike’s ideal customer profiles, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises.

You will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering peers to create scalable, reliable, and customer-centric solutions. As Wrike continues its transition toward a highly scalable microservice-based platform, you will play an important role in shaping backend architecture, improving development efficiency, and supporting Wrike’s mission to become the leading workflow solution provider.

Your Impact:

• Design, build, and enhance backend services and features, from greenfield development to improvements of existing functionality.
• Solve complex technical and product challenges in collaboration with cross-functional teammates.
• Contribute to the evolution of Wrike’s backend architecture as we continue moving from monolith to microservices.
• Estimate development effort, write automated tests, and perform code reviews to ensure high quality, maintainable software.
• Deliver iteratively in a fast-paced product environment using modern engineering best practices in design, testing, and deployment.
• Use AI tools and coding agents in day-to-day development to improve productivity, quality, and automation.
• Partner with Product Managers to influence product direction through technical insight and a strong customer perspective.
• Support technical improvements that reduce solution complexity, increase development efficiency, and strengthen architecture quality.
• Help improve maintainability across both monolith and microservice environments through better tooling, standards, and engineering practices.
• Actively contribute to the growth of teammates through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Your Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on software development experience with Java, including modern versions and backend development best practices.
• Solid experience with Spring and Spring Boot, including IoC concepts.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and SQL.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, especially PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Good understanding of the Java web stack, including HTTP, filters, servlets, and web security.
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks.
• Proven experience working in product teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
• Proactive, collaborative mindset with a strong focus on solving real customer problems.
• Passion for improving technical systems and engineering processes, not just delivering features.
• Curiosity about AI and practical experience using AI tools to improve development workflows.

Standout Qualities:

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.
• Knowledge of TypeScript, HTTP requests, and REST API integrations.
• Solid …